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14
Harland, op. cit.
15
Neil Armstrong in conversation with Eric Jones, at NASA's Lunar Surface Journal
http://www.hq.nasa.gov/alsj/a11/a11.html
16
BBC News, at
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/2272321.stm
; and
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/2410431.stm
GLOSSARY

 

AGS
Abort Guidance System
AOS
Acquisition of Signal
BIG
Biological Isolation Garment
CapCom
Spacecraft Communicator
CMP
Command Module Pilot
CSM
Command and Service Module
DAP
Digital Autopilot
DOI
Descent Orbit Insertion
DPS
Descent Propulsion System
DSKY
[Computer] Display and Keyboard
EASEP
Early Apollo Surface Experiment Package
EMU
Extra-vehicular Mobility Unit
EVA
Extra-vehicular Activity
FIDO
Flight Dynamics Officer
GET
Ground Elapsed Time
IMU
Inertial Measurement Unit
LEB
Lower Equipment Bay
LES
Launch Escape System
LEVA
Lunar Extra-vehicular Visor Assembly
LLTV
Lunar Landing Training Vehicle
LM
Lunar Module
LMP
Lunar Module Pilot
LOI
Lunar Orbit Insertion
LOS
Loss Of Signal
LRL
Lunar Receiving Laboratory
RRR
Laser Ranging Retro-Reflector
MCC
Mid-Course Correction
MESA
Modular Equipment Stowage Assembly
MOCR
Mission Operations Control Room
MQF
Mobile Quarantine Facility
MSFN
Manned Space Flight Network
NASCOM
NASA Communications Network
PDI
Powered Descent Initiation
PGNS
Primary Guidance and Navigation System
PLSS
Portable Life Support System
PPK
Personal Preference Kit
PSE
Passive Seismic Experiment
PTC
Passive Thermal Control
S-IC
First Stage of the Saturn V
S-II
Second Stage of the Saturn V
S-IVB
Third Stage of the Saturn V
SWC
Solar Wind Composition (Collector)
TEI
Trans-Earth Injection
TLI
Trans-lunar Injection
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Books, focusing on contemporary works and first-hand accounts
Buzz Aldrin and Wayne Warga,
Return to Earth
, Random House, 1973
David A. Anderton,
Man in Space
, 1968
Armstrong, Aldrin, Collins, with Gene Farmer and Dora Jane Hamblin,
First on the Moon
, Little Brown and Company, 1970
Piers Bizony,
The Man Who Ran the Moon
, Icon Books, 2006
Andrew Chaikin,
A Man on the Moon
, Penguin,1994
Michael Collins,
Carrying the Fire
, Cooper Square Press, 2001 (originally published in 1974 by Farrar, Straus, and Giroux)
Michael Collins,
Liftoff: The Story of America's Adventure in Space
, Grove Press, 1988
Peter Fairley,
Man on the Moon
, Arthur Barker Limited, 1969
Robert Godwin,
Apollo 11, First Men on the Moon
, Apogee Books, 2005
Robert Godwin (ed.),
Apollo 11, The NASA Mission Reports, Volumes 1, 2 and 3
, Apogee Books, 1999
Richard P. Hallion and Tom D. Crouch (eds),
Apollo: Ten Years Since Tranquility Base
, Smithsonian Institution Press, 1979
Dr James Hansen,
FirstMan, The Life of Neil Armstrong
, Simon & Schuster, 2005
David Harland,
The First Men on the Moon
, Praxis Publishing, 2007
Edwin P. Hoyt,
The Space Dealers: A Hard Look at the Role of Business in the U.S. Space Effort
, The John Day Co., 1971
Chris Kraft,
Flight, My Life in Mission Control
, Plume, 2002
Gene Kranz,
Failure Is Not an Option
, Berkley, 2000
Norman Mailer,
Of a Fire on the Moon
, Little, Brown, 1970
Stephanie Nolen,
Promised the Moon: The Untold Story of the First Women in the Space Race
, Penguin Canada, Toronto, 2002
Rod Pyle,
Destination Moon
, Carlton Publishing Group, 2005
David West Reynolds,
Apollo, The Epic Journey to the Moon
, Tehabi, 2002
Robert Seamans,
Project Apollo, The Tough Decisions
, NASA, 2005
David Shayler,
Disasters and Accidents in Manned Spaceflight
, Praxis, 2000
Deke Slayton,
Deke!
, Forge, 1994
Andrew Smith,
Moondust
, Bloomsbury, 2005
James C. Sparks,
Moon Landing, Project Apollo
, Dodd, Mead, 1970
Glen Swanson (ed.),
Before This Decade Is Out
, University Press of Florida, 2002
Loyd Swenson, James Grimwood and Charles Alexander,
This New Ocean
, NASA, 1998
Guenter Wendt,
The Unbroken Chain
, Apogee Books, 2001
Websites
history.nasa.gov/monograph4
history.msfc.nasa.gov/saturn_apollo/first_saturn_rocket.html
history.nasa.gov/SP-4205
www.thespacereview.com/article/735/1
www.chron.com/content/chronicle/special/jfk/houston/stories/dinner.html
www.britannica.com/eb/article-9057747/Outer-Space-Treaty#145193.hook
www.lbjlib.utexas.edu/johnson/archives.hom/speeches.hom/670127.asp
www.hq.nasa.gov/alsj/a11/a11.1201-fm.html
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_Guidance_Computer
www.nasm.si.edu/exhibitions/attm/a11.jo.fc.1.html
www.thespacereview.com/article/188/3
www.thespacereview.com/article/735/1
www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/moon/peopleevents/p_wives.html
news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/7085003.stm
www.hq.nasa.gov/pao/History/SP-4204
www.parkes.atnf.csiro.au/news_events/apollo11
www.uss-hornet.org/history/apollo
www.lpi.usra.edu/lunar/missions/apollo/apollo_11/samples
news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/2272321.stm
news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/2410431.stm
Use the following NASA link to find out when the International Space Station can be seen with the naked eye above your home town:
spaceflight.nasa.gov/realdata/sightings/index.html
INDEX
Aaron, John
Abernathy, Reverend Ralph
Agena target vehicle
Air and Space Museum
see
Smithsonian Institution
Aldrin, Buzz (Edwin Eugene Aldrin Jr)
Apollo 8
career post-Apollo 11
childhood
Gemini flights
landing on the moon
launch, Apollo 11
launch preparation, Apollo 11
MIT
moon, on appearance of
moon walk,
NASA, joins
Neil Armstrong and
position in Apollo program
PR duties, Apollo 11
quarantine, Apollo 11
re-entry and landing, Apollo 11
rendezvous expert
return to
Eagle
, Apollo 11
return to earth, Apollo 11
selected for Apollo 11
selection for moon walk
on surface of moon, Apollo 11
training
undocking, Apollo 11 command and lunar modules
US Navy
Aldrin, Gene
Aldrin, Joan
Algranti, Joe
Anders, Bill
Apollo, Project
Apollo 1 tragedy, effect upon
costs of
Kennedy and
see
Kennedy, John F.
Soviet Union and
see
Soviet Union
Apollo 1
Apollo 2
Apollo 3
Apollo 4
Apollo 5
Apollo 6
Apollo 7
Apollo 8
Apollo 9
Apollo 10
Apollo 11
abort procedures
adapter
alarms
command module
Columbia
Command Module Pilot (CMP)
see also
Collins, Michael
communications
computers and computer programs
conspiracy theorists and
contractors, role in building of
descent from lunar orbit to moon surface (DOI) (PDI)
disaster, preparation for
experiments, scientific
flight-plan
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